?Coming to Terms with the Masters

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

?Coming to Terms with the Masters

Original language description

The present review article discusses in detail Wiebke Denecke?s monograph The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han Feizi (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2010), a work that aspires to rewritethe history of the classical age of Chinese philosophy. Proceeding from a consideration of the genre of ?masters literature as a retrospectively constructed bibliographic and generic class, this review article questions the coherence of the book?s foundational analytical categories and points out a number of other conceptual and logical inconsistencies as well as a few oversights, mistakes, and misconceptions. In the concluding section, the article argues that a bottom-up approach to early Chinese philosophical writings that begins with a close reading of received and excavated sources and does not eschew the spadework of philological and text critical enquiry is, at the current stage, preferable to the theoretical top-down approach s

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archiv orientální

ISSN

0044-8699

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Volume of the periodical

81

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

603-620

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